Karl

Looks good, but there's one thing I don't understand. Most people would read it as Team Pkers Notorious. Unless, of course, they know who NP is. Would be better with Team at the top middle, then switch Team for Notorious. Just seems logical that way.

Pretty good dude.

Good job.

Mitch, you make my brain hurt.

I remember when people were forced to be loyal because if you left and joined another clan you were seen as a "clan hopper" which was a very bad thing back then!

:) yeah we are Your signature conveys a different message, irony. ;)

qt 3.14 I prefer q t π

Keep the flame to a minimum, or pay the consequences.

Any more flame/baits from this point on and I'll see you in a month.

Any more flame/baits from this point on and I'll see you in a month.

Hello guys, Unfortunately account hijacking or (hacking to some people who don't know the real term) is rife within the RuneScape community. Don't think a close knit community like ours is any better. There are always people who want to steal accounts, mainly for their items, etc. There are several ways people do this and I'm going to let everyone know how, so you can protect yourselves. The easiest way is by using your email address, if you use the same email for everything, whether the password is different or not, you're making it easy for a "hacker" to gain access to your account. One simple method they could use after finding out your email is to send you $0.01 via paypal. Paypal is a huge hub for information, upon sending the money the person will know your name, address, email, and from knowing that they can find out your ISP. Find your Facebook, should you have it and that way find even more information about you. Basically, the "hacker" is trying to gather as much information as they can about you in order to recover your account. How can you ensure safety? Make a separate email address which isn't linked to your RuneScape account on clan forums, and even here. Pure Warfare only needs a valid email address for two reasons, to stop spam bots and so you can recover your forum account should you forget your password. So you don't need to use your main email address here, or anywhere for that matter. Once they know your email address and quite a bit of information about you, they can get even more information about your RuneScape account. They can gain access to your email address quite easily, by recovering that. Many people pay their membership through Debit/Credit cards so your email will have the payment information they need to help recover your account more successfully. tl;dr: Use a different email address for clans, forums, etc, than what you use for your RuneScape, Paypal, Facebook. Whenever you register on a forum, whenever you post, your IP address is logged. If you register on a rival clans forum, they will have this information and could sell that information to help further with the recovery of your account. If you've read this far, well done. So far from knowing your email address the hacker now has: Your full name Your address Your ISP Your payment details Your IP address They could even have enough information to guess your recovery questions, or simply check the box saying "I didn't set these". Now, another way people attempt to gain access to your account is by putting a java drive-by. This is a download which happens without your knowledge and is an attempt at keylogging you. Most people that use this method will try to use a "silent" java drive-by. Basically, this is one that is invisible to your antivirus, this could be done by obfuscating the code. These are hard to find and get rid of. If you do think you have one, either do a system restore or try to find an expert to help you locate it. A RAT is similar, it installs without your knowledge and gives the "hacker" remote access to your system. It also will try to hide itself from any antivirus you have. The best way to ensure you don't get these is to have an antivirus and keep it updated at all times. You could also attempt to block port 3389 on your computer, which is the default port for remote access via your firewall. In order to ensure complete safety make sure you have all of these steps covered. Have an antivirus and keep it up to date Don't visit random websites which don't look secure Keep a separate email address from your real life Change your IP address regularly Don't publish so much information on social networking sites, or at least, keep them set to private/friends only. Make sure you set recovery questions on your RuneScape account Keep your email address secure Block port 3389 on your firewall Securing your facebook: Go to privacy settings: Change the default privacy to friends, then go through each of the settings below and make them friends only, or hidden completely. I hope this has helped people to ensure their account remains safe. A lot of this is just common sense, but anything you put on the internet can and will probably be used against you at some point. Regards, Karl

There are none, clans now accept addy, it's just the way they've "adapted" to stay alive.

It's true.

``Karl I don't get the crash my car into my house reference. Please help. Azrael once upon a time derrick crashed his car in to his house the end Derrick = SI13

A new short story has been added to the Lores & Histories section of our website, written to complement the upcoming quest, The Elder Kiln. View the full article

A new short story has been added to the Lores & Histories section of our website, written to complement the upcoming quest, The Elder Kiln. View the full article

Yawnz speaks the truth. It is incredibly hard to prove who the culprit DDoSers are, and even harder to gather enough evidence to take action against them. And I don't mean action on these forums, I mean their local authorities. Back in 2009 I knew someone who was DDoSing PW, and due to their own stupidity and my investigation I actually gathered enough information from logs, and with the help of a datacenter I was able to pass the information to the abuse department at his ISP. He was soon disconnected. But that really only happened because the guy was an idiot and revealed too much information. Yes, PW perhaps does have some influence to direct clans are we're a hub for them, but an influence is all we do have. We cannot make rules and laws for clans to abide by, we cannot dictate what they can and can't do as with real life there's always someone willing to step out and say "**** it". Really it is up to the Clan Leaders to be stricter, once Clan Leaders make a move I think PW would be more willing to enforce it and keep people from DDoSing. It all starts with Clan Leaders' decisions.

Furious, you make me so wet.

Bye Nums, good luck in life. You're a decent guy with good ideas, let's hope that follows you irl.

You're reading this the wrong way. If we did take action, nothing would change as we don't control clans and clans would get ****** off and attack us, so there's no reason for us to step in. Clans need to grow some balls, admit defeat rather than flipping out about it and DDoSing, and the clan leaders need to get rid of people who DDoS and hack. I sometimes play RS, I just don't clan because the drama is ridiculous. It's a game yet people need to get involved with illegal activities just because they don't want to lose. Heads up kids, losing is part of life. Get used to it.

Yes it does suck, that's why most of us no longer play RS, or at least, don't clan anymore. People have started to take **** way too seriously lately.

Perhaps not, but it's not up to us to control clans. We're here as a place for clans to communicate, we're not here to set rules on how you run your clans. That's entirely down to you.

Banning a clan for an individuals action will not happen, ever. If one person from Foe DDoSes, I wouldn't ban the whole of Foe, I'd ban the individual, simply because one person does not represent an entire clan. /End. Its banning for not taking any action against the individual. The Clan can only be blamed if they don't take a stance against it. Can't control some retard sending out phish links, I agree. Also the leader can't be blamed for his first off action. What they can control however is allowing the person to associate with the clan. If they want to harbour someone doing illegal ****, they should lose their right to post. Plain and simple. Its all about how much you want to do or involve yourself. If you have already given up, then yeah. I haven't given up I still want things to change. But I don't want to drag PW in to it and become a target for attacks. So we won't take action against clans for things that happen outside of PW, we've always said that from day 1. As for clans allowing people to be associated with them, they could easily say "We kicked him" when really, he's on another account, hiding behind the scenes and still continuing to follow through with illegal actions. Yes, for those of you that don't know, DDoSing is highly illegal.

We've gone above an beyond to try and change the way people play this game and nothing has ever happened. We can only suggest, not enforce. Banning a clan for an individuals action will not happen, ever. If one person from Foe DDoSes, I wouldn't ban the whole of Foe, I'd ban the individual, simply because one person does not represent an entire clan. /End.

Your completely wrong. You can change it. Don't let them post. Plain and simple. Yeah it cuts down your sites activity, but its people participating in seemingly illegal measures to benefit in a game. Do nothing and everyone remembers you as ******* when this community dies. Do something and fail and everyone remembers you at least tried. Do something in the face of failure and achieve even alittle bit of success and your the communities champion. MM was banned from these boards for doing something in game you disliked. Remove their ban would be a step in teh right direction to restoring this community. Then as an Admin of these boards have a round table discussion with clan leaders. Talk about a collective repeal in order to focus on better things that have been mentioned. You can only do as much as your willing to do. If your not willing to do anything so be it. We can't do anything, whatever action we take won't change what clans are doing. So what's the point in taking action? You are the one that's wrong and completely illogical. We've tried many many times and nothing has happened because the bottom line is all clans need to agree, if one doesn't, things won't change. MM was banned for ruining one of OUR events, so that directly involved us and action was taken against them. Unbanning them is in discussion currently. As an Admin on these boards all I can do is talk to Clan Leaders and try to direct them, the rest is up to them. I can't enforce clans to change I don't have that authority. "You can only do as much as your willing to do. If your not willing to do anything so be it." Speak to any clan leader you know about the numerous topics I've created in the Clan leader section discussing defence, DDoSing, etc. I've been more than willing to help the situation but like I said. I cannot enforce change.